Student Learning

In recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap the benefits of these discoveries and create a more robust undergraduate curriculum for the 21st century.

Endlich erfolgreich in der SchuleWochenlanges Pauken, Angst vor der Prüfung und ein fortgeschrittenes „Aufschieber-Syndrom“: Das Schulleben ist nicht immer einfach. Umso wichtiger ist es, herauszufinden, welche Lerntechniken am besten zu einem passen.In diesem Buch erfährst du, was das Geheimnis der „Super-Schüler“ ist und wie auch du dich in einen Einser-Kandidaten verwandeln kannst! Willst du deinen Notenschnitt verbessern und ab sofort schneller und effektiver lernen? Und möchtest du Prüfungsängste, Lern- oder Konzentrationsprobleme endlich in den Griff bekommen?

Imagine having someone to help you with your writing and publishing business, doing the tasks you never seem to have time to accomplish. Imagine paying that person not with cash, but with experience and learning. That's what it's like when you work with student interns. Working with student interns can make a difference for you as an author or publisher, expanding the possibilities of what you can achieve.

As more and more students do their best to write better and adapt to academic writing, it becomes increasingly important to offer a more adaptable pedagogy--or teaching style--to better reflect the realities of new generations of native and non-native students.

Professor Anderson is everything a young woman could want. He is intelligent, sexy, and the ultimate Alpha male. At first sight, Brittany tries to test the esteemed professors' authority. However, his grace, maturity, and sex appeal draws her in. It doesn't take long before both of their primal passions take over and a hot and steamy affair starts.

To succeed in the global economy, students need to function as entrepreneurs: resourceful, flexible and creative. Researcher and Professor Yong Zhao unlocks the secrets to cultivating independent thinkers who are willing and able to create jobs and contribute positively to the globalized society. This book shows how teachers, administrators and even parents can understand the entrepreneurial spirit and harness it, foster student autonomy and leadership, champion inventive learners with necessary resources, and develop global partners and resources.

As educators, we have learned the research on brain science, we have seen that addressing only the academic needs of students isn't enough, and we have attended all the [virtual] conferences on why we need to consider more than simply a child's IQ or test scores when supporting them. But what do we do now? The Whole Child School answers that question. Providing practical strategies for younger and older students, Job Iles takes us from ambiguity to application.

This book is a personal spelling dictionary for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, containing over 700 high-frequency words including, sight words, commonly misspelled words, and academic content words.

The context in which adolescents are learning has shifted radically since students first offered blunt advice to high school teachers in the groundbreaking Fires in the Bathroom, a perennial best seller. Now their world is changing at warp speed, and classrooms, too, are seething with anxiety. This sequel raises the voices of diverse youth around the nation as they live through the mind-bending quandaries of this era and ask their teachers to notice.

Black students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for centuries, through the time of slavery, Emancipation, and the Jim Crow era. And for just as long—even through to today—Black students have been seen as a problem and a seemingly troubled population in America’s public imagination. Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Jarvis Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines.

Every year, millions of post-secondary hopefuls vie for enrollment at the nation's top academic institutions with hopes of standing out in a saturated crowd of equally talented candidates. But as those would-be students and their parents know all too well, gaining admittance is a small part of the battle—the bigger hurdle can often be how to pay for it. In an era where families are willing to put themselves into suffocating debt for the sake of higher education, paying for college is increasingly prohibitive.

¿Tienes la costumbre de estudiar sin un plan de trabajo preestablecido? ¿Comienzas el estudio sin tener claridad sobre los temas, autores y textos que debes leer? ¿Estudias de memoria y no puedes tomar correctamente apuntes? Si tu respuesta es sí, este libro es para ti. Te daremos las herramientas necesarias y fundamentales para que afrontes tus estudios sin miedos, sin dudas y con seguridad hacia el éxito, en tus oposiciones y exámenes.

Isaac is a retired accountant who worked in the profession for over 20 years, then moved to a Caribbean Island where he opened a bar. A group of university students visit the island for spring break, including accounting majors Melissa, Jake, and Carter. The students befriend Isaac when they learn he was an accountant, and during the week, their new mentor shares his humorous stories, providing enlightenment on the real world of business.

Du willst Deine Uni-Noten effektiv aufbessern? Gehörst Du auch zu den Studenten, die denken, Einsen schreibt man nur mit einer Überdosis Koffein und endlos langen Nächten in der Bib? Fakt ist: Echte Einser-Studenten lernen nicht härter oder länger - sie lernen clever und effizient. Matthias Brandt enthüllt in seinem neuen Bestseller die bewährten Erfolgsgeheimnisse von Top Studenten aus aller Welt, gebündelt in einem absolut genialen System - einfach wie das 1x1. Wie auch Du systematisch Bestnoten auf Knopfdruck erzielst, erfährst Du in diesem Praxis-Ratgeber.

In Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing.

In The Courageous Classroom, community psychiatrist Dr. Janet Taylor and nationally acclaimed educator Jed Dearybury deliver a concise and insightful take on the culture of fear in schools around the country. You'll learn about the various ways fear is present in students and educators, practical tools and strategies for educators to cope with fear and anxiety in the classroom, the reality of racism, homophobia, and microaggressions and their impact on learning, and how to create a landscape of calm in your classroom.

In Listen Wise, journalist, entrepreneur, and author Monica Brady-Myerov delivers a concise and thoughtful treatment of how to build powerful listening skills in K-12 students. You'll discover real-world examples and modern, research-based advice about helping young people improve their listening abilities and overall academic performance.

In early 2020, because of COVID-19, many colleges and schools around the world closed, and many teachers, instructors, and faculty members had to learn how to teach online in a hurry. This book takes a step back and focuses on helping educators teach effective live online sessions with Zoom.

Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all.

Becoming Einstein's Teacher will help you understand what it is to be a genius, how the brain works, and what it means to learn in the 21st century driven by artificial intelligence. Becoming Einstein's Teacher will show you how to tap into this one thing all your students have that enables lifelong learning without extra curriculum, new tech, more hours in class, or endless homework nights.